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Georg Schöllhammer - Head of tranzit.at, author, curator and editor-in-chief of the magazine Springerin
Moderated by
Sebastian Frenzel - Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Monopol.
Thanks to Kathrin Luz for the excellent conversation with great friends and colleagues!

🎤 ART DÜSSELDORF Talks

“Art versus politics: a renewed old power struggle?”
with
Ivor Stodolsky - Artists at Risk (AR) Co-Founder and Co-Director
Lars Hendrik Beger - Editor magazine Corso at Deutschlandfunk.

ArteSumapaz Foundation with Peppa Herrera and Ric Dragon, shared their vision of an intentional community and sculpture park in Cundinamarca.

Stay tuned as ER-RRAL continues to grow!

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R.A.R.O. shared its cross-border residency model through a visit to its studios in Bogotá, a site once marked by privatization and now reclaimed by artists;
Casa Sanacion Montana Mujeres with Bertha Neris, a safe haven for women in La Calera Mountains;

ER-RRAL’s first ER-Resident at Plataforma Caníbal, Ulises Matamoros, presented his work on the preservation of the Ngiba language through community digital repositories in Mexico;

Plataforma Caníbal, with Jaider Orsini, a community-based platform in Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast;

Kibii Foundation, with researcher Nicholaas Pinas, which works to preserve Maroon cultural heritage in Suriname;
Pukañawi association, with by Humberto Mancilla, which uses film to defend human rights in Bolivia;

💬 Hosting organisations from across the region participated, including the Wuasikamas project, with the Inga indigenous leader Hernando Chindoy, which transformed illicit poppy cultivation into sustainable agriculture in Colombia;

Co-Directors Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky introduced the work of Perpetuum Mobile (PM), including Artists at Risk (AR) and the new Ecologists at Risk (ER) network, a long-term initiative supported by grants from the Nordic Culture Fund’s Globus and Globus Forward Programmes.

👥 The Finnish Ambasaddor Eija Rotinen opened the event by highlighting the importance of cooperation among civil society, cultural institutions and diplomatic actors.

Led by Perpetuum Mobile (PM), Ecologistas en Riesgo (ER) - Red de Residencias en América Latina (ER-RRAL), in Spanish, brings together representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean, founding a continental support network for eco-cultural practitioners at risk.

BOGOTÁ: Inaugurating the Ecologists at Risk (ER) Latin America Residency Network (ER-RRAL) 🌿

#ArtistsatRisk #AR #Perpetuum #PerpetuumMobile #FreedomofExpression #Afghanistan #TemporaryRelocation #Acting #ArtisticFreedom #CulturalMemory #Resistance #Resilience #Germany #BAP

We welcome Fatima and Masiha Khaliqi and their family to Germany and wish them safety, rest and recovery after years of fear.

While we welcome this family’s safe arrival, hundreds of Afghan artists remain trapped. Many were registered under BAP for years. This programme has now been closed for all new cases under the current conservative German government.

Both Fatima and Masiha Khaliqi were active in Afghan television before August 2021. Following the Taliban’s return to power, their public visibility as women artists made them targets of persecution, forcing the family into years of invisibility and living under constant threat.

Their arrival is a moment of relief, after the excruciatingly long wait for the results of the German Federal Admission Program (BAP). Their story is a reminder that for artists, especially women artists in Afghanistan, the dangers are horrific, ongoing and life-threatening.

After nearly three years of fear, hiding and uncertainty, the Afghan actress Fatima Khaliqi and her daughter, actress Masiha Khaliqi, have safely arrived in Germany with their family through the longstanding efforts of the Artists at Risk (AR) Afghanistan Team.

Lives of Artists at Risk: Fatima Khaliqi & Masiha Khaliqi

#ArtistsatRisk #AR #perpetuum #PerpetualMobile #ArtisticFreedom #Art #Ukraine #Kiyv #OlgaKarpenko #ARResidency #SafeHavenHelsinki #ExhibitionOpening #Helsinki #Watercolor

Thanks to The City of Helsinki, The Finnish Arts and Culture Agency, and the Ministry of Education and Culture for their support! We also warmly thank Myymälä2 and curators Ramiro Carmelo and Krista Mikkola for making this possible!

AR-Resident Olga Karpenko - Artists at Risk (AR) Born in 1966, Olga lives and works in Kyiv. A mathematician by education, psychologist by profession, and artist by vocation, she works in watercolor, sepia, watercolor monotype, pen and ink, Chinese ink, and acrylic, focusing on landscapes, flowers, marine life, … Continue reading →

She also is the author of the monograph “Statics-Dynamics in Graphics and Picture Tests” (2018), which explores the concepts of statics and dynamics in graphics, painting and socionics.
Learn more about AR-Safe Haven resident Olga Karpenko:

Olga Karpenko is a Ukrainian graphic artist, a psychologist-consultant, who holds a Master of Mathematics and a PhD in the field of socionics.

Her practice is rooted in attentive observation of urban spaces, natural elements and infrastructure as essential frameworks enabling human existence. Since 2022, her work has responded to life in Ukraine during war.
Learn more about the exhibition here: www.myymala2.com/?p=...

Through watercolors, Karpenko presents a visual chronicle of her life across two cities, one where vital everyday infrastructure is protected, and another where it remains under constant threat, reflecting on the value of normal life itself.

🗓 9–19 April 2026, Wed-Sat 12-18, Sun 12-17, Mon-Tue Closed
✨ Opening: 8 April, 17:00–19:00

AR-Resident Olga Karpenko’s “Helsinki–Kyiv” exhibition opening soon in Helsinki!
Join us at Myymälä2 for “Helsinki–Kyiv”, the first solo exhibition in Finland by Ukrainian artist and AR-Safe Haven resident Olga Karpenko.


📍 Myymälä2,Uudenmaankatu 23 F, HELSINKI 00120

(long-term network funding), Svenska Kulturfonden, Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

We warmly thank all our partners: Creative Residency MC6 (Ukraine), Nida Art Colony (Lithuania), Nordic House (Iceland), Retreat House (Ukraine), Nordic Artists’ Center (NKD, Norway), Detali (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) and MASSIA (Estonia); as well as our funders the Nordic Culture Point